11-letter words containing s, a, r, c, o
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- in contrast — If one thing is in contrast to another, it is very different from it.
- infarctions — Plural form of infarction.
- informatics — the study of information processing; computer science.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- infractions — Plural form of infraction.
- infrasonics — the branch of science that deals with infrasonic phenomena.
- insectivora — the order comprising the insectivores.
- intercostal — pertaining to muscles, parts, or intervals between the ribs.
- intersocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- intracostal — (anatomy) Within a rib.
- intraschool — Within a single school.
- isallobaric — relating to isobars
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isometrical — Dated form of isometric.
- isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
- ivory coast — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- jacob's rod — asphodel (sense 1)
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- keratoscope — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.